Individualism in Modern Thought by Infantino Lorenzo

Author:Infantino, Lorenzo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317798316
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Here is the point that interests us most: ‘Objects are not difficult to acquire because they are valuable; but we call those objects valuable that resist our desire to possess them. Since the desire encounters resistance and frustration, the objects gain a significance that would never have been attributed to them by an unchecked will.’74 This was expressed by Simmel in a much more direct way, when he recognised that one should consider the ‘subject, with his customary or exceptional, permanent or changing, moods and responses as the ground of valuation’ – that is to say, of value.75

From this, it follows that the same subject can evaluate an object in different ways, depending on the circumstances. And it follows, above all, that different subjects evaluate the same objects differently; this is the premise of exchange.

Simmel rightly said:

in exchange, value becomes supra-subjective, supra-individual, yet without becoming an objective quality and reality of things themselves … The Ego, even though it is the universal source of values, becomes so far removed from the objects that they can measure their significance by each other without referring in each case to the Ego. But this real relationship between values, which is executed and supported by exchange, evidently has its purpose in eventual subjective enjoyment, that is, in the fact that we receive a greater quantity and intensity of values than would be possible without exchange transactions.76

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